Looking at the ResetEra thread on this, it seems like some of the reviewers are in some weird circle jerk with that forum over who can suck this game off the hardest for their delight.
After watching some reviews on YouTube, I refuse to accept there are humans that think the writing in the Abbey is good. The writing in this game looks like the worst trends of the worst modern Marvel comic books. Seeing the scene involving Blade's book club makes me wonder what exactly the fuck anyone was thinking. It's like some fucking lame ass shit in this game. Was also surprised to see the opening, however many minutes, that's up on IGN's YouTube channel; that shit is not something I would want to show off. It's got those stupid fucking intro captions that someone at Marvel must think are cute or something, but they're obnoxious, eye roll inducing, and completely unfunny...it's like someone watched Scott Pilgrim, thought to themselves "I can do that," but it turns out they can't and nobody is stopping them from doing it more.
The game also sounds like it has some real problems running on even good hardware. Which is odd given how the game looks like it should be able to run on the 360, not only does it looks like something that should be aboe to run on Xbox 360, it doesn't even look like a particularly good looking 360 game. Like if this game came out 15 years ago, it wouldn't really be something anyone would make note of visually.
I really don't get the Midnight Suns branding for this at all. Like, I get the impression this is probably happening because at a future point somewhere down the like Marvel Studio is probably going to do some Midnight Suns related movie with Blade. But this game, which marketing wise wants to give the impression it's some kind of horror related thing, seemingly has almost nothing to do with the Midnight Sons comic series and no horror stuff really. It's like ever gameplay section I see of this Midnight Sons related title is just battles with random generic Hydra troops and not weird fucking monsters. The Hydra troops not having their comic book designs may as well also mean you're fighting random human solider bad guys created just for this game. This Midnight Suns game seems more like an Avengers game with just a slight tangential connection to the Midnight Sons stuff. It feels like Firaxis want to make some Avengers JRPG homage card game type thing, but couldn't get the rights to Avengers because that was licensed out, so Marvel helped them around this little problem by giving them Midnight Sons and letting the, just make an Avengers game anyways.
Oddly the opening of the game does show off a take on '90s Midnight Sons human Johnny Blaze, looking a little more Sam Elliott like, and I say this is odd because human Blaze was a big part of that Midnight Sons stuff but he doesn't seem to be a playable character in this at all. It's also weird you're in The Abbey, as opposed to Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum, because the Abbey just seems like a shit version of the Sanctume Sanctorum. Why would anyone want original to the game Abbey when they could have the cooler looking and weirder Sanctume Sanctorum? Just from a fan service perspective I don't get it. You're making a Marvel branded product, one which is branded after a comic book event from 30 years ago, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess the majority of people that pick this game up with rather have Doctor Strange's house has the base location.
